Closing key note from Lean Kanban India. Understanding the appropriate application of kanban systems, appropriate use of Enterprise Services Planning, and appropriate application of the Kanban Method for Evolutionary Change. Mapping to Cynefin complexity framework
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Kanban &
Enterprise Services Planning
When are they appropriate?
David J. Anderson
LeanKanban India
December 2015
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Understanding Options for
Improvement
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Kanbanâs Service Oriented Agenda
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, disruptive
& speculative demand
We use Enterprise
Services Planning
to analyze risk
across demand for
work and respond
with suitable
scheduling,
sequencing,
demand shaping,
& capacity
allocation
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Appropriateness
for the use of kanban systems
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My motivationfor adopting
kanban systems was to
prevent muri, control mura
and encourage an evolutionary
approachto change
Overburdening
Variability in Flow
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Appropriateness Question #1
Does your process suffer from
overburdening or
variability in flow?
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What causes unevenness?
1. Non-instant availability of specialist skills or
collaborators
2. Information fails to arrive before it is needed
3. Hidden/Implicit classes of service that cause work
to be interrupted to process other work
4. Variety in work (complexity & size)
5. Changing priorities related to variety in risks
associated with work (e.g. cost of delay)
6. Capacity constrained specialist skilled workers or
other resources (e.g. test environments)
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Are any of these present in your work
environment?
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Kanban may be appropriate for you!
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Kanban is unnecessary where demand never
exceeds capability and flow is smooth and
never interrupted!
If conditions of overburdening
or unevenness in flow exist or
are likely to then use of a
kanban system may be an
appropriate choice
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Appropriateness Question #2
Would your process benefit from
deferred commitment?
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When is deferred commitment useful?
1. Future market, economic, political conditions or
customer tastes or demands are uncertain
2. Demands, priorities, or schedules may change
3. There is an existing high abandonment or discard
rate of ideas or requests
4. There is a high abort rate of committed work
5. There is a high rework rate or high level of failure
demand
6. Work is delivered but ignored or never used
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Are any of these present in your work
environment?
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Kanban may be appropriate for you!
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Kanban is unnecessary where demands and
expectations never change, ideas are never
discarded, work aborted or obviated
If conditions of uncertainty in
the external environment exist
then use of a kanban system
may be an appropriate choice
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In developing the
Kanban Method, a change
management approach that uses kanban
boards & kanban systems to provoke change,
we are enabling the emergenceof
leaner service delivery organizations
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Appropriateness
for the Kanban Method
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Daniel Kahneman has given us a simple model for
how we process information
Daniel Kahneman
System 1
Sensory Perception
Pattern Matching
System 2
Logical Inference
Engine
Learning by
Experience
Learning
from theory
FAST
But slow to learn
SLOW
But fast to learn
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How we process changeâŠ
Daniel Kahneman
Silicon-based
life form
Carbon-based
life form
I logically evaluate
change using System 2
I adapt quickly
I feel change
emotionally using
System 1
I adapt slowly
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Adopting new processes challenges people
psychologically & sociologically
New roles attack identity
New responsibilities using new
techniques & practices threaten
self-esteem & social status
Most people resist most change
because individually they have
more to lose than gain
It is safer to be conservative and
stick to current practices and
avoid shaking up the current
social hierarchy
Only the brave, the reckless or
the desperate will pursue grand
changes
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The Kanban MethodâŠ
Rejects the traditional approach
to change
Believes, it is better to avoid
resistance than to push harder
against it
ï§ Donât install new processes
ï§ Donât reorganize
Is designed for carbon-based
life forms
ï§ Evolutionary change that is
humane
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The Kanban MethodâŠ
Catalyzes improvement through
use of kanban systems and visual
boards*
Takes its name from the use of
kanban but it is just a name
Anyone who thinks Kanban is
just about kanban (boards &
systems) is truly mistaken
*also known as "kanban" in Chinese and in Japanese when written with Chinese characters
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Water flows around the rock
âbe like waterâ
the rock represents resistance
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Kanban should be like water*
In change
management,
resistance is from the
people involved
and it is always
emotional (system 1)
To flow around the
rock, we must learn
how to avoid
emotional resistance
* http://joecampbell.wordpress.com/2009/05/13/be-like-water/
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Appropriateness Question #3
Are people likely to resist change
emotionally, rejecting forced
changes to their identities?
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Traditional Change is an A to B process
A is where you are now. B is a destination.
ï§ B is either defined (from a methodology definition)
ï§ or designed (by tailoring a framework or using a model based
approach such as VSM* or TOC TP**)
To get from A to B, a change agency*** will guide a
transition initiative to install B into the organization
***either an internal process group or external consultants
Current
Process
Future
Process
Defined
Designed
transition
* Value stream mapping, ** Theory of Constraints Thinking Processes
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What change really feels like:
The J Curve
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What change really feels like:
The J Curve
Safety!
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What change really feels like:
The J Curve
Patience!
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Start with what you do now
The Kanban Method evolved with the principle that
it âshould be like waterâ - enable change while
avoiding sources of resistance
With Kanban you start with what you do now, and
"kanbanize" it, catalyzing the evolutionary process
into action. Changes to processes in use will occur
Evaluating whether a change is truly an
improvement is done using fitness criteria that
evaluate an external outcome
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Fitness criteria are metrics that measure
observable external outcomes
Fitness criteria are metrics that
measure things customers or
other external stakeholders value
ï§ Delivery time
ï§ Quality
ï§ Predictability
ï§ Safety (conformance to regulatory
requirements)
or metrics that qualitatively
assess actual outcomes such as
ï§ customer satisfaction
ï§ employee satisfaction
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Evolutionary Change May Be Enough
Evolutionary change can often
deliver dramatic improvements in
key fitness metrics such as lead
time, quality, & delivery rate
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Evolutionary change has no defined end point
Evolving
Process
Roll
forward
Roll
back
Initial
Process
Future process is
emergent
Evaluate
Fitness
Evaluate
Fitness
Evaluate
Fitness
Evaluate
Fitness
Evalua
Fitnes
We donât know the
end-point but we do
know our emergent
process is fitter!
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Evolutionary change with
many small Jâs
Fitness
Time
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Appropriateness Question #4
Is your boss a revolutionary?
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Not every senior leader is a revolutionary
The last thing IBM
needs now is a
new strategy
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But many feel the need
to shake things up and leave their mark
Carly Fiorina
We need to buy
Compaq!
Go big or go home!
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Your boss may
lack the patience
to wait for an
evolutionary
approach to
improvement to
take effect
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Change kanban
system design
(policies) to catalyze
(or probe) for desired
emergent outcomes
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Ecosystems of
interdependent
professional services
(such as software product
development)
exist in all 3 domains
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ESP & Kanban are
designed to work
across all 3 domains
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Kanban is unlikely
to be useful in the
Chaotic domain
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Kanban & ESP
For broad application as a service delivery workflow
overlay to control âmuraâ and eliminate âmuriâ &
enable deferred commitment
For broad application as a management system
enabling adaptive capability and emergent âfitness
for purposeâ
Most useful where demand can be treated as a pool
of options and can be shaped using risk
management, marketing strategy and strategic
planning
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Kanban & ESP
Kanban systems for appropriately categorized
Obvious Domain problems
ESP risk assessment, scheduling, sequencing, risk
hedging algorithms for analyzed Complicated
Domain problems
Kanban Cadences coupled to model-driven
improvement techniques, and an awareness of the
psychology, social psychology & sociology of the
workplace for Complex Domain problems
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Kanban is for evolutionaries
Kanban may be
just what I need!
I donât have time for
this! Kick ass, take
names & get it done!
Carly Fiorina
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About
David Anderson is an innovator in
management of 21st Century
businesses that employ creative
people who âthink for a livingâ . He
leads a training, consulting,
publishing and event planning
business dedicated to developing,
promoting and implementing new
management thinking & methodsâŠ
He has 30+ years experience in the high technology industry
starting with computer games in the early 1980âs. He has
led software organizations delivering superior productivity
and quality using innovative methods at large companies such
as Sprint and Motorola.
David defined Enterprise Services Planning and originated
Kanban Method an adaptive approach to improved service
delivery. His latest book, published in June 2012, is, Lessons
in Agile Management â On the Road to Kanban.
David is Chairman & CEO of Lean Kanban Inc., a business
operating globally, dedicated to providing quality training &
events to bring Kanban and Enterprise Services Planning to
businesses who employ those who must âthink for a living.â
The reason: people resist change. The traditional change model would work perfectly well with silicon-based life forms because the benefits could be argued and agreed with logical. But carbon-based life forms resist change because they don't process it logically but with their sensory perception, their emotional intelligence, the older brain function Daniel Kahneman calls "system 1".
The reason: people resist change. The traditional change model would work perfectly well with silicon-based life forms because the benefits could be argued and agreed with logical. But carbon-based life forms resist change because they don't process it logically but with their sensory perception, their emotional intelligence, the older brain function Daniel Kahneman calls "system 1".
New roles attack their identity.
New responsibilities using new techniques & practices attack their self-esteem and put their social status at risk
Statistically, most people resist most change because individually they have more to lose than to gain. Probabilistically, it is safer to be conservative and stick to current practices and avoid shaking up the current social hierarchy. Only the brave or the reckless will pursue grand changes.
The Kanban Method rejects the traditional change management method and rejects the installation of a new style of working. It does this because it is better to avoid resistance than to push harder against it.
The Kanban Method introduces an evolutionary approach to change that is humane. It is designed to work with carbon-based life forms processing change with system 1. Anyone who thinks Kanban is just about kanban (boards & systems) is truly mistaken. The Kanban Method is an example of a new approach to improvement.
The Kanban Method rejects the traditional change management method and rejects the installation of a new style of working. It does this because it is better to avoid resistance than to push harder against it.
The Kanban Method introduces an evolutionary approach to change that is humane. It is designed to work with carbon-based life forms processing change with system 1. The Kanban Method catalyzes improvement through the use of kanban systems and visualization. It is from the use of kanban that the method takes its name, but it is just a name. Anyone who thinks Kanban is just about kanban (boards & systems) is truly mistaken. The Kanban Method is an example of a new approach to improvement.
A key teaching in Bruce Leeâs philosophy that adapted from Taoism, is "to be like water". Water flows around the rock. The rock represents resistance - in fighting, the resistance is from the opponent. In Kanban, the rock represents resistance to change.
In change management, resistance is from the people involved and it is always emotional.
To flow around the rock, we must learn how to avoid emotional resistance.
Traditional change is an A to B process. A is where you are now. B is a destination. B is either defined (from a methodology definition) or designed (by tailoring a framework).
To get from A to B, a change agency* will guide a transition initiative to install destination B into the organization.
*either an internal SEPG or external consultants
The Kanban Method evolved with this principle in mind. That we must discover a way that enabled change while avoiding invoking sources of resistance - even better if we could motivate the people involved to advocate for the changes required.
With Kanban you start with what you do now, and "kanbanize" it, catalyzing the evolutionary process into action. Changes to processes in use will occur and evaluating whether a change is truly an improvement can be done using fitness criteria that evaluate the external outcome.
Fitness criteria are metrics that measure things customer or other external stakeholders value such as delivery time, quality, predictability, conformance to regulatory requirements or metrics that value actual outcomes such as customer satisfaction or employee satisfaction
Traditional change is an A to B process. A is where you are now. B is a destination. B is either defined (from a methodology definition) or designed (by tailoring a framework).
To get from A to B, a change agency* will guide a transition initiative to install destination B into the organization.
*either an internal SEPG or external consultants